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The Yobe State Commissioner of Home Affairs, Information and Culture, Hon. Abdullahi Bego, has said that owed to galore cases of Kidney illness mostly recorded successful Jakusko, Nguru, Gashua, Yusufari, and immoderate different communities successful the bluish parts of the state, Governor Mai Mala Buni came up with escaped attraction for each patients to prevention lives.
He disclosed that implicit 600 patients person attraction connected a monthly ground astatine the Yobe State University Teaching Hospital (YSUTH), which was initiated by the erstwhile Governor, Ibrahim Gaidam, and consolidated by the contiguous medication of Governor Buni.
Bego disclosed this successful an interactive league with journalists astatine the extremity of the 2-Day Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) 2025 Quarterly Strategy Meeting of Commissioners for the accusation of each Progressive Governors ‘ Congress, APC-governed states, which took spot successful Maiduguri connected Thursday.
He admitted that, “Yobe authorities has galore cases of kidney disease, arsenic astir of the communities connected the shores of Yobe/Kumadugu River successful the bluish portion of the authorities suffered most”.
To code the basal origin of the incident, the Commissioner pointed retired that, the Yobe State Government has established Biomedical Science Research and Training Centre located astatine the College of Medical Science, Yobe State University, afloat equipped with modern instrumentality worthy billions of naira, adjacent arsenic it is besides collaborating with University of Sussex, United Kingdom and immoderate Researchers, including a US-based Dr. Mahmoud Bukar Maina, a British-Nigerian neuroscientist and pedagogue whose probe is focused connected the cellular and molecular pathogenesis successful Alzheimer’s disease.
According to Bego, the interaction of the authorities government’s inaugural goes beyond providing contiguous alleviation and aesculapian consumables and delves into the causes of the kidney illness epidemic.
He besides explained that Governor Buni, who has since declared a State of Emergency successful the wellness sector, has constructed implicit 400 beds astatine Mamman Ali Maternal and Child Complex, which erstwhile President Muhammadu Buhari had antecedently commissioned.
He added that the state-of-the-art installation located wrong the premises of YSUTH is not lone redeeming millions of lives but besides serving arsenic a referral and probe centre successful addressing maternal mortality successful the North East region.
On societal infrastructures, particularly roads and drainage networks wrong agrarian and municipality centres, the Commissioner said, “Apart from the ongoing operation of a multi-billion-dollar flyover wrong Damaturu metropolis, the authorities authorities has completed the rehabilitation of cardinal roads specified arsenic Katarko-Goniri and Siminti-Godowoli.
Other interventions were the Geidam-Bukarti, Bayamari-Yunusari, and Yunusari-Kanamma roads, the Damaturu-Kalallawa 25.5-kilometre dual carriageway, facilitating entree to the Muhammadu Buhari International Cargo Airport, and the dualization of the Abattoir Junction-New Bye-pass Roundabout connected Potiskum roadworthy to negociate precocious postulation volumes.
“Additional projects are the operation of roads connecting assorted communities, specified arsenic Damagum-Gubana, Bulanguwa-Kumagannam, Nguru-Bulanguwa, Danchuwa-Garin Abba-Garin Bingel, Chumbusko-Tagali, Nguru Highway-Karasuwa Galu town, Fika-Maluri, Jaji Maji-Karasuwa town, and Kukuri-Chukuriwa-Dawasa, among others”, Bego stated.
Similarly, the Commissioner further explained that Governor Buni expended N3.5 cardinal successful gathering 4 Ultramodern Sesame Seed Cleansing, Processing, and Packaging factories crossed the state.
He said these factories are located successful Machina, Potiskum, Nguru, and Damaturu section authorities areas, arsenic Yobe authorities is the largest shaper of Sesame seeds successful Nigeria.
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